Title from incipit (leaf 2a2 recto)

"Caii Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae liber ..."--Leaf 2a3 recto, line 7

Imprint from Goff

Signatures: 2a-2b⁸ a-b⁸ [cursive d]⁸ e⁶ f-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-I⁸ 2I⁶

Leaves printed on both sides; 53-54 lines per page

Guide letters

Goff

Hain

Proctor

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SCDIRB and SCNHRB have one copy each

SCDIRB copy 39088007406945 imperfect: lacking leaf 2a1 (blank?). Leaves 2a2-2a8 and 2b1-2b2 are lacking and have been replaced by old ms. text pages in ink; leaf x4 is misbound immediately before leaf x3; the bottom third of leaf2I6, including colophon [?], has been torn out and replaced with a blank piece of paper

SCDIRB copy has ms. annotations (some affected by cropped margins)

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has illegible ms. provenance note on leaf 2I6 recto

SCDIRB copy bound in old full vellum over paper boards; blue sprinkled edges; title inked on spine

SCNHRB copy 39088011698529 imperfect: lacking leaf 2a1 (blank?); leaf a1 cropped at bottom

SCNHRB copy has copious early ms. notations (in different inks) throughout; rubricated

SCNHRB copy bound in modern vellum with raised bands

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer

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